E44 Left ventricular hypertrophy patterns, ventricular remodeling and QT dispersion in untreated essential hypertension

Association of QT Dispersion with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Essential Hypertensives

Left ventricular geometry and severe left ventricular hypertrophy in children and adolescents with essential hypertension.

BACKGROUND Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy has been established as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults. Recent research has refined this relationship by determining a cutpoint of 51 g/m(2.7) for LV mass index indicative of increased risk and defining LV geometric patterns that are associated with increased risk. The purpose of this study was to evaluate severe LV h...

Hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy.

In response to high blood pressure, left ventricular hypertrophy develops. But in hypertension, the myocardial hypertrophied structure is abnormal. The prevalence of this hypertrophy is influenced by age, gender, weight, race, genetics and the severity of high blood pressure. By echocardiography, it has been possible to detect non invasively and more precisely this hypertrophy and its anatomica...

Phenotyping patterns of left ventricular remodeling and hypertrophy in systemic hypertension by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)

Methods Consecutive patients referred from our tertiary hypertension clinic, who underwent CMR at 1.5T, were included. Exclusion criteria included patients with clinical or CMR evidence of concomitant pathology (e.g. moderate-severe aortic stenosis) which may confound remodeling/hypertrophy pattern. Indexed LVM (iLVM), including papillary muscle mass by blood pool thresholding, indexed LV enddi...

echocardiographic assessment of inappropriate left ventricular mass and left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with diastolic dysfunction

background: early diagnosis of left ventricular mass (lvm) inappropriateness and left ventricular hypertrophy   (lvh) can result in preventing diastolic left ventricular dysfunction and its related morbidity and mortality. this study was performed to determine if diastolic dysfunction   is associated with lvh and inappropriate lvm. methods: one hundred   and twenty five uncomplicated hypertensi...